Cultivating an Ethical Imagination in the Current Climate of Hopelessness By Dion Forster On the 16th of August 2022, I was privileged to deliver my professorial inaugural lecture as a full professor of Public Theology and Ethics at Stellenbosch University, in South Africa. The tradition of an inaugural lecture is Read more
Democalypse Now: Unveiling our Chances By Catherine Keller What, no more apocalypse? Has the dramatic lurch into catastrophe—white supremacist mobilization, COVID-19, climate denialism—suddenly petered out? Its causes and its supporters aren’t disappearing; their idol Trump wasn’t convicted. But they can no longer claim sovereign superpower. And yet: the roaring red Read more
The Theology of Evangelista By Zairong Xiang And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.—1 Corinthians 13:13 On the widely claimed FX series POSE, Damon Richards, before moving to New York, was beaten by his biological father and kicked out of his suburban Read more
On Life, Dogs, and Chernobyl By Whitney A. Bauman (Ferris Wheel, Pripyat, Ukraine) As someone who works in the broad field of “religion and nature,” and who regularly teaches a course on “Earth Ethics,” I jumped at the opportunity to visit one of the defining environmental disasters of our time: Read more
Proud to be Bird-Brained By Jay Johnston I sat awkwardly aware of the tears coalescing and starting to slide down my cheeks. There I was, in the audience at a small community hall on a small island off Tasmania, losing emotional composure over The Louise Crossley Memorial Lecture by Dr. Read more